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Will unbridled presidential power prevail, or American democracy? This is a record of the lawyers and journalists who use laws such as the Freedom of Information Act to fight against the secrecy of the Bush administration and maintain an open government. * A coffin wrapped in the flag / Ralph Begleiter * Exposing the "profiteering of war" / Daniel Polity * Torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo / Amrit Singh * The deep ties between the Bush administration and the oil industry / Sharon Buccino * A pioneering public defender takes on Cheney's secrecy / Alan Morrison * Uncovering the true damage of the Alaska oil spill / Richard Steiner * The mountaintops erased by the coal industry / Ken Ward Jr. * Stopping Attorney General Ashcroft's secret arrests / Kate Martin * Condemning the secret investigations under the Patriot Act / Jameel Jaafa * Computers, privacy and the US Constitution / David Sobel * Protecting a former FBI whistleblower / Mark Zaid * Exposing the FBI's spying on civil society / Ben Weisner * Nixon and Bush: The battle for the presidential papers / Scott Nelson * Forcing the FBI to Apologize for Illegal Plots by Seth Rosenfeld * Is There a Future for Democracy by Steven Aftergood

A young American comes to Japan to learn about the regulations of the Japanese stock market. He attends a court hearing on a case involving collusion between politicians and stockbrokers to manipulate stock prices, and as he takes notes on the proceedings he faces a thick wall of a ban on taking notes. The men's fight for the freedom to take notes in court has begun!